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13 benefits of an IMS

An Integrated Management System (IMS) combines all aspects of an organisation’s systems, processes and ISO standards; it merges your ISO management processes, reducing hassle, cutting waste and refining compliance. With pre-defined processes and procedures, it gives businesses like yours a helping hand in achieving best practices for quality, transparency, environmental impact, occupational health and safety, […]

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An Integrated Management System (IMS) combines all aspects of an organisation’s systems, processes and ISO standards; it merges your ISO management processes, reducing hassle, cutting waste and refining compliance. With pre-defined processes and procedures, it gives businesses like yours a helping hand in achieving best practices for quality, transparency, environmental impact, occupational health and safety, […]

What is an Integrated Management System (IMS)?

Integrated Management Systems (IMS) merges your ISO management processes into one convenient system, reducing hassle, cutting waste and refining compliance. With pre-defined processes and procedures, it gives businesses like yours a helping hand in achieving best practices for quality, environmental impact, occupational health and safety, and many more. You can easily coordinate multiple business operations […]

6 challenges for compliance officers in 2022

The job of a compliance officer can be a difficult one. Organisations from large corporations to small government agencies rely on their compliance officers to keep them within ethical and legal boundaries. They also rely on them to maintain monitoring and reporting requirements and stay abreast of any changes in the compliance landscape. For professionals […]

U.S. Anti-Corruption Strategy: How will the U.S. prioritise implementation of its new anti-corruption strategy?

The Anti-Bribery Anti-Corruption (ABAC®) Center of Excellence is pleased to welcome Worth MacMurray as an Auditor and member of our expert team here at ABAC®. Worth provides audit services and expertise on existing compliance and Anti-bribery Anti-corruption management systems to assess effectiveness and vulnerabilities while ensuring compliance with Internal Standards, FCPA rules and all other global, regional and local […]

Global investment firm Mubadala achieves ISO 37301 CMS Certification

The Ethics & Compliance Office of Mubadala Investment Company PJSC has successful completely the ABAC® Certification program and achieved ISO 37301:2021 Compliance Management standard certification. The announcement is made under the Chairmanship of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces […]

Largest SEC whistleblowers rewards in 2020

Under the SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, the SEC will issue awards to whistleblowers who provide original information that leads to enforcement actions with total monetary sanctions (penalties, disgorgement, and interest) over $1 million. A whistleblower may receive between 10% to 30% of the monetary sanctions collected. Since 2012, the SEC has issued more than $1 billion in […]

Playbook on Risk management and ABMS: All you need to know and more!

Risk management is a full-time, ongoing endeavour for organisations in today’s business world, posing constant challenges. Unfortunately, fraud, bribery, and corruption are major factors affecting businesses and agencies. Being proactive against these risks can mean the difference between success and ruin. The Risk Management and ABMS Playbook provide tools, checklists, case studies, FAQs and other […]

CPI 2020: Asia Pacific, Pakistan and Middle East

The newly published Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI 2020) has ranked 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. This index uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. CPI 2020 identified that despite progress, most countries still struggle to stop corruption effectively […]

ISO 37001 ABMS certification: what to expect?

Even though the International organisation has developed it for standardisation, many are still wondering what to expect from implementing the ISO 37001:2016 Anti-Bribery Management System (ABMS) in their businesses. Questions that usually arise are related to whether this certification is enough to prevent bribery and corruption in organisations, whether it is a silver bullet or not. We […]